Summary of Zaretta L. Hammond's Culturally Responsive Teaching and The Brain

Everest Media

Description

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
Sample Book Insights:
#1 The American education system has created an epidemic of dependent learners who are unprepared to do the higher order thinking and creative problem solving required by the new Common Core State Standards.
#2 The school-to-prison pipeline is a set of seemingly unconnected school policies and teacher instructional decisions that over time result in students of color not receiving adequate literacy and content instruction while being disproportionately disciplined for nonspecific, subjective offenses.
#3 The achievement gap between white and minority students is due to the fact that we don’t teach students with cognitively disadvantaged backgrounds the skills they need to be independent learners.
#4 Culturally responsive teaching is a pedagogical approach that helps students build intellective capacity, also called fluid intelligence and intellective competence. It is based on the learning theory and cognitive science.

Sujets

• Multicultural education

Informations

• Publié par: Everest Media LLC
• Date de parution: 28 mars 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781669369974
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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Insights on Zaretta L. Hammond's Culturally Responsive Teaching and The Brain
Contents Insights from Chapter 1 Insights from Chapter 2 Insights from Chapter 3
Insights from Chapter 1

#1

The American education system has created an epidemic of dependent learners who are unprepared to do the higher order thinking and creative problem solving required by the new Common Core State Standards.

#2

The school-to-prison pipeline is a set of seemingly unconnected school policies and teacher instructional decisions that over time result in students of color not receiving adequate literacy and content instruction while being disproportionately disciplined for nonspecific, subjective offenses.

#3

The achievement gap between white and minority students is due to the fact that we don’t teach students with cognitively disadvantaged backgrounds the skills they need to be independent learners.

#4

Culturally responsive teaching is a pedagogical approach that helps students build intellective capacity, also called fluid intelligence and intellective competence. It is based on the learning theory and cognitive science.

#5

The four core areas of the Ready for Rigor framework are social, emotional, and cognitive conditions, and active engagement. When the tools and strategies of each area are blended together, they create the conditions that allow students to more actively engage and take ownership of their learning process.

#6

To successfully teach students from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds, teachers must place instruction within the larger sociopolitical context. This first practice area helps teachers develop a sociopolitical consciousness, an understanding that they live in a racialized society.

#7

The second practice area focuses on building trust with students across differences so that the teacher is able to create a social-emotional partnership for deeper learning.

#8

The third practice area is focused on how to strengthen and expand students’ intellective capacity so that they can engage in deeper, more complex learning. The culturally responsive teacher is the conduit that helps students process what they are learning.

#9

In the fourth practice area, teachers should focus on creating an environment that feels socially and intellectually safe for dependent learners to stretch themselves and take risks.

#10

The first practice area of the Ready for Rigor framework is awareness. It involves becoming knowledgeable about the dimensions of culture as well as the larger social, political, and economic conditions that create inequitable education outcomes.

#11

The brain uses cultural information to turn everyday events into meaningful events. We must access the brain’s cognitive structures to deliver culturally responsive instruction.

#12

The third level of culture is made up of the unspoken rules around everyday social interactions and norms, such as courtesy, attitudes toward elders, nature of friendship, concepts of time, personal space between people, nonverbal communication, and rules about eye contact.

#13

The deep cultural level is made up of our tacit knowledge and unconscious assumptions that govern our worldview. It also contains the cosmology that guides ethics, spirituality, health, and theories of group harmony.

#14

The three levels of culture are represented by an iceberg, with surface culture as the tip of the iceberg, shallow culture located just below the water line, and deep culture the largest part hidden deep in the water.

#15

The key to culturally responsive teaching is to focus on deep culture.